Woke up this morning to snow.  Not a whole lot, just a dusting but the snow was still falling.  Big, white, fat, Hollywood flakes (insert Alec Baldwin joke here) kept drifting down for the next two hours.  We accumulated about a quarter inch in our back yard but the ground was too warm to sustain it.  By mid afternoon it was all gone.

Yesterday we had a weird bit of weather.  I was sitting at a friend's kitchen table when we noticed the sky turned black and the wind kicked up.  It didn't last so I thought nothing of it.  Then, on my way home I wanted to stop by the store and I cut through a neighborhood to get there...no dice.  Trees down everywhere!  For a six block stretch, everywhere I went there were trees down in the road.  Cops were blocking off access and directing cars back out to the main roads.  In the middle of the neighborhood is a school and they couldn't get a bus within two blocks of it.  I drove a mile around only to find that the grocery store had lost power due to the lines the trees brought down.  Sorry, come back later!  No peanut butter today.

The devastation seemed to be contained.  When I got to my house, a half mile away, everything seemed normal.  Until I got out of my car and found the broken skeleton of my once proud market umbrella, the canvas stripped away and the spines all shattered, lying on the deck.  The furniture which hadn't been packed away in the garage yet was all smooshed up against the bench in the middle of the deck.  Clearly, that big, vicious wind had come through here, as well.

We still had our power though, so I wasn't too upset.  I really liked that umbrella, though.  It was multi colored stripes and very festive.  I wonder where the canvas wound up?  Could be all the way to Lake Harriet for all I know.

I got a lot of work done today.  Josie and I went to Sam's club before school so she could check out their winter coats.  We've been shopping around and haven't found anything she likes.  She did like a simple, black down jacket with a detachable hood.  It was the right size, the right length and looked good on her.  We should've checked to see if they had boots, too, but it didn't occur to me until we were back in the car. 

I finished two tuffet panels.  I can't do the other three til next week, as I don't have enough canvas left for them.  The canvas rolls come in two sizes; 36 and 54 inches wide.  The last time I ordered it they didn't have the larger rolls so I had to get ten yards of 36.  The tuffet panels I'm doing each need 23" and I don't have anywhere near five yards of canvas left.  No biggie, I ordered more and can paint the rest of the panels next week.  I've got plenty of orders for the other gage canvas.  I carry three; 13, 16 and 18.  Tuffets are usually on 13, although I am doing two smaller ones, featuring fairies, on 16. 

I had to get my credit card payment in the mail today.  So....I checked the due amount and realized if I deposited another hundred in my account I could pay the card off.  I grabbed the cash, put it in my check book to deposit when I picked Josie up after school, wrote the check and sealed it up.  I dropped the payment at the post office to make sure it arrived before the due date.  Went and got Josie, stopped at the bank....

No cash in my purse.  What the hell?

I remembered putting the bill in my checkbook when I penciled in the deposit. 

I riffled through my checkbook again.

No Benjamin.

But the check I'd written to the credit card company was still there.

Craaaaaaap.

I paid my credit card with cash.

I guess we'll see how that turns out.

 

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